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Where do you hook up an engine idle solenoid?

Posted By: brando

Where do you hook up an engine idle solenoid? - 06/22/16 06:53 AM

Hi All,
I have a 73 Charger with a 440 and aftermarket air conditioning
I have been staring at my 73 service manual for hours and I get 3 different schematics.
Page 8-148, figure 16-65 shoes the idle solenoid wire going to a
3-way splice to bulkhead connector 23, the ignition ballast and the alternator regulator.
Page 8-148, figure 17-65 shows the idle solenoid wire going to a 3-way splice that goes to the electronic ignition control, alternator regulator and the ignition ballast.
Page 8-129 shoes the idle solenoid wire going to the middle field (F) connection on the alternator.
and Page 8-128 shows the idle solenoid wire going to the middle field (F) connection on the alternator.
Perhaps this is all the same way, just executed differently.
Can anyone show me a picture of their set up?
are they all in effect the same connection?
Any help or better suggestions would be appreciated
thanks
Vic
Posted By: RapidRobert

Re: Where do you hook up an engine idle solenoid? - 06/22/16 12:04 PM

If you want it "on" all the time when the ign is on/eng running then I would just solder it into the ign1 "run" blue wire circuit that feeds the reg/alt field/ballast at a good convenient point for aesthetics. EDIT If it is only supposed to be operational when the AC is on then I would T into the feed wire for the AC compressor
Posted By: brando

Re: Where do you hook up an engine idle solenoid? - 06/22/16 03:28 PM

Robert,
I have read some where that tapping into the A/C compressor feed causes the solenoid to cycle on and off with the compressor. The main complaint was that if you are stopped in traffic, and the A/C cycles off and on, you have to blip the throttle every A?C cycle to get the solenoid to hold.
If that's just the way things were back in the 70s, I can live with that.
But, ideally I would like activate the solenoid every time I switched the A/C on at the dash (regardless of that the compressor is doing)
thanks
Vic
Posted By: RapidRobert

Re: Where do you hook up an engine idle solenoid? - 06/22/16 05:27 PM

Yeah I dont know AC so that might be the case. You might just wire a seperate on/off toggle switch as you mentioned to have direct control of it, a seperate fused line
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